Wire-stretcher.



PATENTED NOV. 28, 1905.

I. LAMBERT.

WIRE STRETOHER.

APPLICATION FILED mum, 1905.

/Vitnmu UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WlRE-STRETCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

Application filed March 20,1905. Serial No. 251,133.

To all whom itmay concern.-

Be it known that I, J on LAMBERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Catherine, in the county of Wilcox and State of Alabama,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Stretchers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention provides an improved construction of wire-stretcher ofthat type embodying, primarily, a lever having a wire-engaging claw ormember applied thereto.

The essential feature of the invention resides in the provision of adevice of the above type having the utmost simplicity in constructionand therefore adapted to be manufactured ata comparatively small cost,at the same time being of maximum s'ubstantiality.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means foreffecting the result reference is to be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings.

While the invention may be adapted to different forms and conditions bychanges in the structure and minor details without departing from theessential features thereof, still the preferred embodiment is shown inthe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of adevice embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertital longitudinalsectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the claw alone.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the Views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the lever and the numeral 2 theclaw or wireengaging member. The member 2 is secured to the lever, whichlatter is preferably made of wood or like material to increase thecheapness of the device, ata point between the ends of said lever. Thisclaw or engaging member 2 comprises a body preferably consisting of aplate having a longitudinally-extending V- shaped slot 3, forming a jaw4, between which and the body of the member is received the wire in thepractical operation of the device. The body 2 is arranged lengthwise ofthe lever and is provided at opposite ends with lateral extensions 5,adapted to pass through openings 6 in the lever. The extensions 5 formmeans for attaching the claw or member 2 to the lever, the outerextremities of said extensions being bent laterally, so as to preventdisplacement thereof from the openings in the lever, affording a veryrigid and firm connection with the operating member 1.

The construction of the device is such that the members 2 may be quicklyapplied to the levers 1 in the making of the invention, and when oncesecured to the levers these members 2 are not likely to be disengaged orbroken under most severe conditions of service. The lever 1 may bereduced at one end so as to from a handle portion, the opposite endbeing provided with a point 7 which may engage a post or other suitableobject when using the lever in applying the strain to the wireto stretchthe latter.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is In awire-stretcher, the combination of the lever 1 provided at one end withthe point 7 the claw or joint-engaging member 2 comprising a plate orbody formed longitudinally thereof with the V-shaped slot 3, the lever 1having spaced openings therein, and the extensions 5 projected from theclaw 2 at its 0pposite extremities and passing through the openings inthe lever, the outer ends of the extensions aforesaid being bentlaterally to WINNIE B. LEE, CAssin OAINE.

